If you click on the About menu item under System 6, on the right you can see a list of names: Larry, John, Steve, and Bruce. These are the names of the developers of this version of the Finder, the interface of the Macintosh

At the time Apple still used to give credit to developers by allowing them to appear in the info boxes of the software they had created. Usually their names appeared in full, sometimes even with pictures, but here all we have are the first names. Let’s see who these four are.

Larry is Larry Kenyon, longtime Apple and Mac developer. Kenyon, among other things, worked on Multifinder, the version of the Finder that starting from System 5 allowed Macintosh users to keep open many applications and switch between them bringing their windows to the front.

John is John Meier, who also worked on the Newton project and would keep on being a developer of subsequent versions of the Finder, the only one of the four names to do so.

It always bummed me out that my name would never be related to some of the legends of Finder development, like those listed above. The practice of having About boxes stopped right when I came to Apple, which also coincided with the return of Steve.

Gawd, System 6! Spartan, limited in its capabilities, but a clean, intuitive and–provided one was sparing with the INITs–stable OS compared to the subsequent iterations of the “Classic” system. I brought my first Mac home in September 1984, and beginning three years later made my living on the platform fulltime to the present day. One of my mainstay machines at work was a Macintosh II running System 6 that I used, albeit with gradually decreasing frequency, from 1988 until 1997, when its HD expired, taking some specialty legacy apps with it.

I’m cool with the “Invasion of the Bodysnatchers” bit that NeXT Computing did on Apple, but the sight of that “About” box brings on a spasm of nostalgia.

Roger: there are also the signatures on the Certificate of authencity of the Apple IIgs “Woz Edition”.
I’m working on that and will feature an articole with the list of engineers and managers, trying to explain what each one did for the Apple IIgs and for Apple in general. :)